Main entry:

Jensen, Finn.

Title & Author:

Modernist semis and terraces in England / Finn Jensen.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.

Description:

xx, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I ARCHITECTURAL MODERNISM -- 1. Towards Modernism in England -- pt. II WORKING-CLASS ESTATES -- 2. Clockhouse Way estate -- Braintree -- 3. Crittall's Garden Village -- Silver End -- 4. Bata estate -- East Tilbury -- 5. Lescaze at Dartington Hall -- 6. Estates for war workers -- 7. Jellicoe's seven secret estates -- pt. III MODERNIST HOUSING -- THE INTER-WAR PERIOD -- 8. rise of Modernism in continental Europe (1900 -- 1940) -- 9. Housing inter-war England -- 10. Modernism and its critics -- England in the 1930s -- pt. IV MIDDLE-CLASS MODERNISM -- A JOURNEY THROUGH ENGLAND -- 11. Greater London -- northern part -- 12. Greater London -- southern part -- 13. coastline from Cornwall to Essex -- 14. Inland locations -- 15. Modernism, Art Deco and the Suntrap House -- pt. V POST-WAR MODERNISM -- 16. Modernism 1945 -- 1965 -- 17. wilderness years and a new Modernism 1965 -- 2010.

Summary:

Between the two World Wars, there was an unprecedented need for new houses in Britain which resulted in a building boom. While only a small percentage of this building took the form of Modernism, there was still a significant number of semis and terraces built for the workers and middle-class families in the 1920s and 1930s built in this style. This book examines these modest Modernist houses within the broader context of the Modern Movement in Europe, as well as the inter-war building boom in suburban Britain. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs of more than 30 examples from around the country, and based on little-known contemporary material such as catalogues, advertisements, radio broadcasts and letters, it shows how these houses speak of a time of political, social and artistic unrest, and a world where the avant-garde architects sought to capture the spirit of modern technology in their designs for the average home owner. While the Modernist houses never became popular with the general public, the fact that so many are still standing and now sought after by twenty-first century families speak for their endurance and special appeal.

ISBN:

9780754679691 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0754679691 (hardback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Semi-detached houses England.
Terrace houses England.
Modern movement (Architecture) England.
Maisons jumelées Angleterre.
Maisons en terrasses Angleterre.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Angleterre.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Semi-detached houses.
Terrace houses.
England.

Added entries:

Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278317
Call No.: BIB 213929
Status: Available